Chimneys play hide and seek with the sun on a bright day, seeming to dart in and out of the shadows of stately cedar trees.On an overcast day, an eerie ghostly atmosphere seeks its way through a twisting maze of vegetation that blankets what was once the largest town in Randolph County.Today Louina is a…
One peddler of produce on East Main Street in Roanoke who doesn’t put up his tailgate and disappear is the vendor at what was once Joe’s Exxon. He works about eight hours a day from April till the end of pumpkin season – Oct. 31. W.L. “Joe” Graben has been selling from the elephant building…
As the wrecking ball draws nearer to Roanoke Warehouse Co. at the corner of Lamont and West Point streets, it seems only fitting to give the nearly 80-year-old structure a proper sendoff. Many people around Roanoke call the building Master Door. However, Earl Cooper, who worked in the building for approximately 30 years, explains that…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Mrs. Tommie Nell Bowles Pitts, 81, of LaGrange, Ga., died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, at Hospice LaGrange. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Sept. 6, in the chapel of Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home in Hogansville, Ga. The Revs. Durwood Perry and Jake Dudley will officiate and interment…
(LINEVILLE) Funeral services for Hilda L. McDonald, 74, of Lineville will be Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, at 2 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Home in Lineville with the Rev. Billy Todd officiating. Burial will follow in Wesley’s Chapel Christian Church Cemetery. Ms. McDonald died Thursday, Sept. 5, at Clay County Nursing Home. A native of Randolph…
(ELBURN, Ill.) Janice Wren, 70, of Elburne, Ill., died at her home surrounded by the love and prayers of her family on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. A funeral service celebrating Jan’s life will be at the funeral home Monday, Sept. 9, 11 a.m. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the time of service. The…
(LaGRANGE, Ga.) Mrs. Tommie Nell Bowles Pitts, 81, of LaGrange, Ga., died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, at Hospice LaGrange. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Sept. 6, in the chapel of Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home in Hogansville, Ga. The Revs. Durwood Perry and Jake Dudley will officiate and interment…
(ROANOKE)Graveside services for Tony Elmer Smith, 50, of Roanoke will be Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, at 11 a.m. at Mt. Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in the Stroud community with Bro. Gerald Romine and Rev. Gregory Walker officiating. Mr. Smith died Tuesday, Sept. 3, at Wedowee Hospital. A lifelong resident of Roanoke (Chambers County), Mr.…
(CRAGFORD) Funeral services for Katie Bell Mattox Wheeles, 95, of Cragford were Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, at 11 a.m. at Mellow Valley Baptist Church with the Revs. Jerry Wheeles, Kenneth Fuller, Tommy Gene Young and James Owen officiating. Burial followed in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs. Wheeles died Saturday, Aug. 31, at Clay County Hospital. She…
(HUNTSVILLE) Dr. George R. Walker, Jr., 80, of Huntsville, died Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. He was born and raised in Randolph County about five miles from Wadley and graduated from Wadley High School as the co-valedictorian of his class. He attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he received a B.S. in 1954. He…
The couples are set and the practicing has begun for the 2013 edition of Dancing for Dollars to be held Saturday, Sept. 21, at 6:30 p.m. in Brazeal Auditorium on Southern Union State Community College’s Wadley campus. This year’s competition will feature Ben Bailie, pastor of First Baptist Church of Roanoke, with partner Katie Bethune;…
A one-vehicle motorcycle accident on Alabama Highway 22 Monday at 4:10 p.m., a couple of miles east of Wadley, injured Stevie Butler, 32, of Roanoke. He was the driver of a 2013 Honda motorcycle, according to the spokeswoman at the Jacksonville State Trooper Post. He was airlifted to UAB, where media specialist Meghan Davis reported…
Family members, friends, co-workers and former co-workers attended Capt. Donnie Truitt’s retirement party at city hall in droves Tuesday afternoon, Aug 27. Truitt spent 29 years in the Roanoke Police Department, working his way up the ladder to the position just under Chief Adam Melton. As person after person made remarks honoring him, it was…
Cooperation between the Roanoke Police Department, Randolph County Sheriff’s Department and communication with the Chambers County Sheriff’s Department is leading to a spate of church burglaries likely being solved. RCSD investigator Gregg Dendinger said that on August 21 Caanan Baptist Church, County Road 815, reported a Phoenix Power Mixer, two speakers and a Yamaha Keyboard,…
In a busy meeting last week Roanoke Board of Education held a public hearing on the proposed budget presented by Pam Mitchum, chief financial officer, and heard an assessment update by Donna Hodges, director of special education/student services. The board approved the approximately $12.8-million budget for 2013-2014, which was slightly more than last year’s approximately…
Robert Lamar Hendricks, 26, of 315 Government St., Roanoke was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, driving under the influence and attempting to elude a police officer on Sept. 2 after a lengthy chase that endangered drivers. Officer Timothy Sheppard met the subject’s vehicle on U.S. Highway 431 and he clocked the vehicle as traveling…
Barry Popham, Alabama Marine Police officer, said three people had gone to Lakeside to get gas in their boat when an approaching storm excited their small dog. The dog’s leash became wrapped around the boat’s steering wheel and the boat ran onto the shore around Piney Woods about 4 p.m. Sept. 1. Three people were…
The Randolph County unit of the American Red Cross is asking for the public’s assistance in helping stock “Comfort Kits.” These will be given out as immediate help to those who lose their homes to fire or other disasters within Randolph County. Items needed include toothbrushes, toothpaste, razors (disposable), shaving cream or gel, soap, tissues,…
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage and security agreement executed by TERESA W. TUCKER, on the 24th day of April 2007, to VANDERBILT MORTGAGE AND FINANCE, INC., as recorded in Mortgage Book 514, Page 447, in the office of the Probate…
STATE OF ALABAMA COUNTY OF RANDOLPH NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Karolina Reddish, a married woman, on the 20th day of August, 2010 to Bank of Wedowee which said mortgage is recorded in the Probate Office of Randolph County,…